Re: key bindings on mac os x
Stefano Baroni wrote:
Why don't the default key bindings on mac osx follow the standard mac
convention? (e.g. italicising could be -i, rather than -e).
Not that it is that important, but it would be much nicer ... Thanks - SB
One answer to that is that this really isn't italics, it's "emphasis".
If you emphasize a word in a line that is normally set in italics, such
as the statement of a theorem in mathematics, then the emphasized word
comes out upright. LyX (and TeX) hang on to the idea of emphasizing the
word, so you can take the paragraph containing it, change the
environment that text is in, and get correct behavior. If, on the other
hand, you set it as forced-italicized and changed the whole paragraph to
an italicized mode, it would stay italicized. This is the difference
between the two ERT commands {\it{}} and \emph{}. As I recall, Lyx
used to support both environments, but a decision was made to only use
\emph{}.
Of course, it may be that Mac's do this with -i for other programs.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
Re: key bindings on mac os x
> "Stefano" == Stefano Baroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stefano> Why don't the default key bindings on mac osx follow the Stefano> standard mac convention? (e.g. italicising could be -i, Stefano> rather than -e). Not that it is that important, but it Stefano> would be much nicer ... Thanks - SB Because -e is not italicizing, but emphasizing. JMarc
Re: key bindings on mac os x
fr. 16. mars 2007 05:48 skive Stefano Baroni: > Why don't the default key bindings on mac osx follow the standard mac > convention? (e.g. italicising could be -i, rather than -e). > Not that it is that important, but it would be much nicer ... Thanks Hi, you can change the key bindings to your liking: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/KeyboardShortcuts However, I think it is important for lyx to use, as far as possible, the same key bindings on the different platforms it runs. This helps people using lyx on many platforms, and make it easier to teach and help people to use LyX. When it comes to opt-e, it is not italicising the text, it is emphasising the text. It might not seem as a big difference most of the time, but try to set your normal font to an italicised font, and the difference will become apparent. :) Ingar
key bindings on mac os x
Why don't the default key bindings on mac osx follow the standard mac convention? (e.g. italicising could be -i, rather than -e). Not that it is that important, but it would be much nicer ... Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
